Description

This plugin does two things: it creates the image files required by the High-DPI devices and it displays them to your visitors accordingly. Your website will look beautiful and crisp on every device! The retina images will be generated for you automatically (though you can also do it manually) and served to the retina devices. The concept of retina images for full-size images is also a very unique feature which is only provided by this plugin (which is why it became unique).

Retina Methods. It supports different methods to serve the images to your visitors. Why? Depending on the theme and plugins you are using (and also the way you use images in your website), not all the methods can work. Ideally, I would recommend using the Responsive Images method, then if it doesn’t work, the PictureFill method (which covers normally most cases). Retina.js should be the fallback method. There are more methods than this with their specific options.

Plug & Play. With a well-made theme and website, this plugin doesn’t require normally any specific set-up. All the defaults settings are fine. Works with multi-site and many kinds of installs.

Optimized. The plugin is very fast and optimized. It doesn’t create anything in the database.

Pro. When activated, the Pro version adds support for Retina for full-size, support for lazy-loading for your responsive images and various options. And it supports my work 🙂

Responsive Images. WP has support for Responsive Images and this plugin handles this nicely by adding the retina images in the src-set created by WordPress. The HTML for the images not handled by WP 4.4 (outside posts) will also be handled by the plugin (pick “Picturefill” method for this). The plugin also provides an option to disable the ‘Medium Large’ created by WordPress which is actually not useful (it’s a hack basically), this plugin does it better.

CSS & Background Images. The plugin cannot inject CSS to handles the images added through CSS, that’s both too dangerous and potentially very incorrect. However, in its Pro version and with PictureFill, you get an option to replace the inline CSS background image by their retina equivalent.

More information and tutorial available one http://meowapps.com/wp-retina-2x/.

Reviews

Hi,
After talking with the author (you can read below) he is considering to update his PRO version license, so I have changed my review too.

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The plugin author does not comply with the GPL on the PRO version. His plugins are not GPL compatible.
I tried to contact him on the matter but he removed my comments on his webpage.
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I also sent him a long email explaining the GPL and he never replied.

So after all this I need to tell others here to be aware of this plugin and this developer.

I cannot trust somebody that does not comply with the rules and GPL is the most important rule of all.

I am sure he will reply here, all the authors do that, I would love to hear from him after all this.

I’ve spoken with Jordy twice and no more than that, because the plugin does everything it is meant to do and runs absolutely smoothly, creating no problems. Both times I needed support from Jordy, it was due to problems with WordPress upgrades that no one could foresee. Both times he replied fast and smoothed things over very fast. That is the kind of support you want when you buy a pro plugin.

Info: If you are using Lightroom, please have a look at my plugin for synchronizing your Lightroom to WordPress: http://meowapps.com/wplr-sync/. And if youi love my Retina plugin, please write a little review here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-retina-2x/reviews/?rate=5#new-post. Thank you 🙂

4.7.7

Add: The Generate button (and the bulk Generate) will now also Re-Generate the thumbnails as well (like the Renerate Thumbnails plugin). If you are interested in a option to disable this behavior, please say so in the WP forums.

4.7.6

Fix: Issue with Pro being non-Pro outside of WP Admin.

Fix: Retina debugging file was not being created properly.

4.7.5

Fix: Don’t delete the full-size Retina if we re-generate.

Fix: Little issue with Ignore.

Update: Additional debugging.

Info: Please write a review for the plugin if you are happy with it. I am trying my best to make this plugin to work with every kind of WP install and system 🙂

4.7.4

Update: Retina was moved into a new Meow Apps menu. The whole Meow Apps menu can be then hidden. For a nicer WP admin. The whole admin UI was updated.

Add: New PictureFill option: inline CSS background can be now replaced by Retina images (excellent for sliders for example).

Add: Over HTTP Check option: check for retina image remotely, for example if you are using images from a different website or server, it will check for the Retina version. Works with the PictureFill method.

Change: Mobile detection was completely turned off as I don’t think it should be used, but let’s see if some of yours still need it. Ideally I would like to remove it from the code.

Fix: Check if the CDN is already present before modifying/adding.

4.6.0

Fix: Button Details was not working properly.

Fix: Removed the beta Retina Uploader which is not working yet (was included by mistake).

Update: Added the info screen available in the Retina Dashboard in the Media Library as well and improved the UI a tiny bit (it was a bit messy if you had a lot of image sizes.)

4.5.8

Update: LazyLoad 2.0.3

Fix: Don’t display Retina information for a media that is not an image.

Update: Retina.js 2.0.0

Fix: Drag & Drop upload was a bit buggy, it now has been improved a lot!

Add: Option to hide the ads, flatter and message about the Pro.

Update: Options styles.

4.4.6

Update: LazyLoad 1.5

Update: Retina.js 1.4

Update: PictureFill JS 3.0.2

Fix: LazyLoad was not playing well when WordPress creates the src-set by itself.

Fix: Get the right max-upload size when using HHVM.

Fix: Displays an error in the dashboard when the server-side fails to process uploads.

Update: During bulk, doesn’t stop in case of errors anymore but display an errors counter.

Update: Ignore Responsive Images support if the media ID is not existent (in case of broken HTML).

Change: different way of getting the temporary folder to write files (might help in a few cases).

3.1.0

Add: Lazy-loading option for PictureFill (Pro).

Fix: For the Pro users having the IXR_client error.

Fix: Plugin now works even behind a proxy.

Fix: Little UI bug while uploading a new image.

Add: In the dashboard, added tooltips showing the sizes of the little squares on hover.

Fix: The plugin was not compatible with Polylang, now it works.

3.0.0

Add: Link to logs from the dashboard (if logs are available), and possibility to clear it directly.

Add: Replace the Full-Size directly by drag & drop in the box.

Add: Support for WPML Media.

Change: Picturefill script to ‘v2.2.0 – 2014-02-03’.

Change: Enhanced logs (in debug mode), much easier to read.

Change: Dashboard enhanced, more clear, possibility of having many image sizes on the screen.

Fix: Better handing of non-image media and image detection.

Fix: Rounding issues always been present, they are now fixed with an 2px error margin.

Fix: Warnings and issues in case of broken metadata and images.

Add: (PRO) New pop-up screen with detailed information.

Add: (PRO) Added Retina for Full-Size with upload feature. Please note that Full-Size Retina also works with the normal version but you will have to manually resize and upload them.

Add: (PRO) Option to avoid removing img’s src when using PictureFill.

Info: The serial for the Pro version can be bought at http://meowapps.com/wp-retina-2x. Thanks for all your support, the plugin is going to be 3 years old this year! 🙂

2.6.0

Add: Support Manual Image Crop, resize the @2x as the user manually cropped them (that’s cool!).

Change: Name will change little by little to WP Retina X and menus simplified to simply “Retina”.

Change: Simplification of the dashboard (more is coming).

Change: PictureFill updated to ‘v2.2.0 – 2014-12-19’.

Fix: Issue with the upload directory on some installs.

Info: Way more is coming soon to the dashboard, thanks for your patience 🙂

Info: Manual Image Crop received a Pull Request from me to support the Retina cropping but it is not part of their current version yet (1.07). For a version of Manual Image Crop that includes this change, you can use my forked version: https://github.com/tigroumeow/wp-manual-image-crop.

1.6.0

Add: HTML srcset method.

1.0.0

Change: enhancement of the Retina Dashboard.

Change: better management of the ‘issues’.

Change: handle images with technical problems.

Fix: random little fixes again.

Change: upload is now HTML5, by drag and drop in the Retina Dashboard!

0.9.4

Fix: esthetical issue related to the icons in the Retina dashboard.

Fix: warnings when uploading/replacing an image file.

Change: Media Replace is not used anymore, the code has been embedded in the plugin directly.

Update: to the new version of Retina.js (client-method).

Fix: updated rewrite-rule (server-method) that works with multi-site.

Fix: support for Network install (multi-site). Thanks to Jeremy (Retina-Images).

0.3.0

Fix: was not generating the images properly on multisite WordPress installs.

Add: warning message if using the server-side method without the pretty permalinks.

Add: warning message if using the server-side method on a multisite WordPress install.

Change: the client-method (retina.js) is now used by default.

Fix: simplified version of the .htaccess directive.

Fix: new version of the client-side method (Retina.js), works 100x faster.

Fix: SQL optimization & memory usage huge improvement.

0.2.2

Fix: the recommended resolution shown wasn’t the most adequate one.

Fix: in a few cases, the .htaccess wasn’t properly generated.

Fix: files were renamed to avoid conflicts.

Add: paging for the Retina Dashboard.

Add: ‘Generate for all files’ handles and shows if there are errors.

Add: the Retina Dashboard.

Add: can now generate Retina files in bulk.

Fix: the cropped images were not ‘cropped’.

Add: The Retina Dashboard and the Media Library’s column can be disabled via the settings.